Straits Echo, 16 October 1917
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Title Section35 1917-10-16 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL. 16. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, TUESDAY, 16th OCTOBER, 1917, Single Copy, IO cents. No. 2*3«35 words
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Advertisement1054 1917-10-16 1 1 Si fx !s&> fl < sTK m> '2^s i M JCi ttr f*\ SbiTSS The Georgetown (BANKS ■o’ I Chartered Bank of India, I Australia and China. (Incorporated in England by Royal Charter.) northam road AND FARQUHAR street. Paid up Capital Reserve Fund Reserve Liability of Proprietors Head Office:1,054 words
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Advertisement9 1917-10-16 1 «mtaut E?** •"tec UiC TIO*« FOI *car ESa I9 words
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Article1885 1917-10-16 2 “Ambassador to Ghrmant.” Following are further instalments of Mr. J, W. Gerard’s Memoirs My ermmission bad read Ambassador to Germany.” It is characteristic of our deep ignorance of all foreign affairs that I was appointed Ambassador to a place which dors not exist. Politically, there is no such1,885 words
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Article252 1917-10-16 2 Tbe Municipal Commissioners of George Town, PenaDg, hereby invite separate tenders for tbe following for one year from the Ist day of January, 1918: “A” 1. Renting of Noordin Street Ghaut Market, 2. Renting of Jelutong Market. 3. Renting of Pulau Tikus Market. 4. Renting of Sungei Pinang252 words
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Advertisement61 1917-10-16 2 111 [C QIQII; I THE LEADING PENANG r Value Unequalled. i° EVER INCREASING ASSORTMENT. Newest Styles Shapes WHITER WAY lAIBLAW k CO. LIMITED. (incorporated in England.) o >BsX§] 10C2SS30 -fill II II I Ik p Packed in Tins of 1 Kilo and in Bottles of 500, 250 and 100 tablets.61 words
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Advertisement60 1917-10-16 2 Sunshine and Common SenseDon’t d ctor your blood for rheumatism. Use an exteranal application of Phamberlam s Pam Balm. In a few davs it w3«t you up and out into the sunshine, then nature will restore the rich red blood to your veins and soon rid the system of this60 words
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Advertisement305 1917-10-16 2 W-AJNTT^ x>. TO purchase a Rubber Est%t 9 50n be a r 'ng or other*,* particulars at once to e «all W. C l° Straits Bcfo W-A-KTTbJ' Weeding Contractors Chinese 0r Good rates long term; healthy estate Apply personally, Manager, Kelubi Estate, Alor Star. for sale. A COMPLETE PLANT OP305 words
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Article375 1917-10-16 3 [To the Editor os the Straits Echo.} Sir, I do not think it would be an exaggeration to say that prices have risen nearly 100% since the war, Tbe pricos of some aitdes has gone up to not under three times its former price, many from twice to375 words
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Article670 1917-10-16 3 A very steady tendency has prevailed in the Ru'obpr share market recently, and considering the adv.icca which has taken place during t ro past year the continuance of support is evidence tf the confidence of the public in the future of the industry. Rubber has, cf course,670 words
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Article643 1917-10-16 3 Novel Sport on the Kinta River. An element cf coutidgrabie novelty in the series tf events arranged to augment the Kinta Our D*y Fund was tbe Fish Drive on the Kinta River on Sunday, says the T, 0. Af. Ordinarily a rare sporting event, tbe driva was organised643 words
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Article335 1917-10-16 3 Wholesale Scratching. (From Out Oim Correspondent Singapore, October 14. The great deal of interest which is centred in to day’s racing destroyed by the wholesale scratching of s and Go dali s horses, resulting in there being only t wo hors* s running in the big race. In335 words
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Advertisement409 1917-10-16 3 AN AIL-STAR FEATURE PROGRAMME FOR TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER, 16 and 17th iiEMPIR J. Business Manager. Thomas Shafts. 1 .THEATRE In the l3t Show commencing at 8 pm. QUALITY PICTURES CORPORATION Presents FRANCIS X. BDiKMAN and BEVERLY BAYNE IN THE GREAT SECRET 2nd SH< THE TOY SOLDIER at 9- o409 words
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Advertisement344 1917-10-16 3 1 1 1 I 1 QUALITY is the point which is necessary in an enjoyable U Cigarette. I i I k I O t. 1 V V V 1 I i I I 1 1 That’s why EMBASSY 1 2 m V V V V V Vs VIRGINIA No. 77344 words
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Advertisement201 1917-10-16 3 PE FOR SALE Rubber Coconut Estate. Si'uabd on the m:m toad about two i!< s from Suogie Bikap Railway Station moisting of Robber 31f acres Ccccnu's 7 ecres Farther particulars from Box No. 999. c/o Straitt Echo. FOR SALEAT TONGKAli! SMALL RUBBER ESTATE, Cjnristing of about 50 acres planted with201 words
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Article, Illustration94 1917-10-16 4 r«hli shift daily (except Sunday* and pnbiio hoWay*) at ran CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. gt. 59, Beach Btreet, Penang. Ffeioi! Local W 4 P® r annum. Oration... Portage Extra, riilinr (Port Free) 917.50 iDDBIIS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo) 586 Printing Department 343 fl.B. —AH businew communications should be94 words
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Article1136 1917-10-16 4 It is greatly to be hoped that the Municipality which is doing good work in opening up the town will be able to induce the Government to remove Pitt Street Station from its present inconvenient site. Why it was allowed to be built in the middle of the1,136 words
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Article68 1917-10-16 4 Latest Quotations Tin (unrefined) ia quoted here to-day st 9111 70, business done, in Singapore, (>efincd) at 1112, buyers no sailers, and in London at £246 10-'. spot and at £244 three months. e. Boustead A Co inform cs that the followirg were the quotations for rubber68 words
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Article902 1917-10-16 4 Mr. Ng. Seng Sooi proceeds to Singapore 1 to-day on a short business visit. Mr. and Mrs. Lim Obeng Law leave for 1 Singapore to-day on a short visit. Mr. R. Madge, of Kuala Lumpur, who has been spending a holiday up the Crag, leaves for the902 words
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Article927 1917-10-16 4 A Query and a Reply. A correspondent asks what we me*n precisely by domestic Germany’s internal struggles,” which be discovered in this column yesterday in the Random Note on the German Mutiny Debate.” We con fees we don’t know. It certainly has an ugly look, like the situation927 words
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Advertisement282 1917-10-16 4 mnns I TABLETS. GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICE. Quinine Bisulphate Tabs. 5 grs. $2.50 per 100 Bihydrochiorate $1 25 25 53 00 100 G-T D. Quinine Tablets are very liable and d ssolve instantly in the stomach thus starting the curative action inmediatley after taking. SO EYESIGHT CHATS ivsiikbi A LADY282 words
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Advertisement39 1917-10-16 4 IN AID OF THE RED FUND. FOOTBALL CUP TIE At The Padaig To-morrow C. R. C. vs. Hutton Lane. O» TKu r»d»T Etolii GO TO THE ELECTRIC POLYSCOPE SPECIAL PROGRAMME PROCIEDB WILL BK Generously given te help the Fond.39 words
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Article1721 1917-10-16 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] U T HE MUD DIDU3 IN Attifkfr H'ld in the Slime. London. October 15 ltil „f 1.. t Pria*j'> in Flander. D „,la how the weather robbed the f re 7iC,orJ A ar 9U «hit a’l rank? are Baying in the 0 “L „ord B! -"Tho1,721 words
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Article675 1917-10-16 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Reciprocal Artillery Activity. London, October 15. A French communique states “On the Aisne front reciprocal artillery activity continued, being most lively iu the region of the plateaux between Ailles and Craonne on the right bank of the Meuse, There were violent artillery aotions north of Hill675 words
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Article894 1917-10-16 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Goveraacat ud Socialist Deputies. Zurich, Ootober 15. A telegiam from Karlsruhe states that the Government has refused to appoint a Parliamentary Committee to investigate into the charges against the Socialist members of the Reichstag, Haase, Dittmann and Vogtherr, as the evidence against them has already bean894 words
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Article583 1917-10-16 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] PRESS COMMENTS. Allotting the Blame* Petrograd, Oot. 15, The entire press expresses alarm at the landing at Oesel. The Bourte Qazett* points out that the whole situation in Russia is now extremely complicated. It speaks of the "unsatisfactory state of affairs in the interior583 words
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Article488 1917-10-16 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams laaar War Cabiaet. London, Oot, 15. The Ottawa correspondent of the Tints* says that Sir Robert Borden, Premier of Canada, has completed a Coalition Government. Following the British precedent it is proposed to form an inner War Cabinet composed of four Conservatives and three Liberals.488 words
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Article90 1917-10-16 5 The following articles will be found on our outside pages Page. 2. —Gerard’s Memoirs. 3. —Rising Prices. The Rubber Position, Fish Drive. Singapore Races, 6. —Focd Supplies. Oil Seeds from JuDgle Tree. The Hlndenbnrg Plan. Land Tenure in Siam. War News and Gossip. "Oar Day." Eastern Produce Exchange. The90 words
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Article1070 1917-10-16 6 The submarine tnenaco is rapidly diminish- ing, but a fresh difficulty appears to have arisen in a general stringency the world over in food supplies. As regards wheat it is not unexpected. So intensified and scientific has been its oulture that a normal fertile pieoe of land in1,070 words
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Article998 1917-10-16 6 Strategic Retreats, Mr. Henry, Wcodi correspondent with th French armies, writes: The much vaunted Hiudenburg plan which, ever since the beginning of the yeir, I has been held out to the German people as their sure salvation, ia no longer a closed secret. The nature of this998 words
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Article1039 1917-10-16 6 Trees known by the rative name of Icawang or tengkawang, which appear to b 1 >Dg to the family Dipterocarpaceae, occur abundantly in some parts of North Borneo. Tnere is native belief that the trees fruit tv ry five yrars. According to information collected by1,039 words
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Article2226 1917-10-16 6 Campaign in Flanders. (J')vm Our Own, Correspondent London, August 24. The campaign in F aoders baa yet some tea weeks to iua era the rigours of eaily winter c*n m .terially interfere wiih its progress. Toe campaign is now at its highest pi'ch cf intensity. At2,226 words
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Article310 1917-10-16 6 PROGRAMME OF EVENTS. Wednesday, Oct 17—Footbdl Cup Ti ft spm CRO®. Hatton Town Bind, Thu-„l*J. lB-Tbe Electric Pel,»,» Co 9.15 pm Fri uy, Oct. 19—Variety Entertainment. Tov»u H*l', 9 15 p m Town Bind, T-ncis Match J H «powers (Ipohl and WHThrelfall (Penang) 4-30 pm Hat u day,310 words
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Article133 1917-10-16 6 Tuesday, October 16. Singapore Rices. New M-on, Wednesday, October 17 T'»wu Bod, Esolanade Fooib-li Cup Tie—o. R. C. vs Hutton Lace, E«!{ limine, 5 p.m, Thubsday, Octobsr 18. The Electric Polyscope Co 9 15 p,m. St. Lake. Mobamuudan New Year commences, Singapore R ices. Friday. October 19133 words
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Article86 1917-10-16 6 At the Eastern Produce Exchange 176th Auction Sale the following prices were obtained per picul. Diamend 7 Smoked Good $ll5 Diamond Smoked 1 Fair from 107 to $lll Diamond Unsmokfed Sheet 93 to 105 Plain Unsmobed Sheet 86 to 95 Biown Crepe 86 Scrap Crepe from 5186 words
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Article57 1917-10-16 6 The following programme of musio will be played at the Golf Club this evening fro» 5,45 p m, to 7.15 p.m. 1 Selection The Gaisha Jones 2 Polka Tiddledywinks Willi*® s 3 Selection» Tne Bell of New York Karker 4 Waltz Dollar Princess Fall 5 Graceful Dance57 words
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Advertisement37 1917-10-16 6 Children’s Colds Why let the children rack their little bodies in such a distressing manner when you can so easily cure their colds with a bottle of < hamberlain’s Cough Remedy. For sale by all dispensaries and dealers-37 words
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Advertisement44 1917-10-16 6 Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. There is nothing: so good for muscular rheumatism, sprains, lameness, cramps of the muscles bruises and like injuries as Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. It will effect a cure in less time than any other treatment For sale by all dispensaries and dealers,44 words
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1965 1917-10-16 7 London, August 2. Although the opinion of divers military experts here on the situation in Russia could be expressed in two words of one syllable each—it is hardly fitting to set down those two words and leave things at that! Although forceful and true, they1,965 words
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Advertisement239 1917-10-16 7 This is to give notice that the Trade Mark, consisting of the emblem of one or more Cocks is the property of Hengmoh, Hongkee Co., of £5 Beach Street, I’ening, Merchants and Dyers and it is being used by them ai a Trade Mark in connection with Dyed Cloth and239 words
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Advertisement105 1917-10-16 7 Diphtheria— Haw It May ge Avoided. Diphtheria is usually contracted when the child has a cold. The cold prepares the child’s system for the reception and development of the diphtheria germs. When there are cases of diphtheria in the neighborhood children that have colds should be kef t at home105 words
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Advertisement292 1917-10-16 7 Never too hte to cure Neuralgia If you are suffering now from the grippin?, twitching pains of neuralgia—if you suffered yesterday and expect to suffer tomorrow—yes if you’ve suffered all your life from the agonies of neuralgia, rheumatism, sciatica, backache, toothache, earache sprains, strains, or swellings now is the j292 words
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Advertisement1612 1917-10-16 8 p. BRITISH INDIA AND APCAR LINE. (Companies Incorporated in Enil&nd) MAIL AND PASSENGER SERVICES. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS(Under Contract with His Majesty’s Government.) The Company's MAIL SERVICES EAST OF BOMBAY are at present suspended. Passengers for Europe are booked via Bombay as opportunity offers and as far as accommodation is1,612 words
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